Evelyn Goh is the Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies at The Australian National University, where she is also Research Director in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre.
Projects / Initiatives
As Australia faces growing strategic uncertainty, preparing and educating the next generation of strategic leaders is an urgent necessity. Along with its internationally recognised research and teaching programs, the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) meets this need by creating innovative, world-class, research-based executive education.
This project is funded by a grant from the Australian Defence Strategic Policy Grant Scheme (DSPG19).
Research focus
Project Aims: This small team of specialist SDSC scholars will research, design and deliver an original Executive Education program, which develops research-based analysis, concepts and planning tools designed for Defence strategic policy and knowledge training for policy-makers dealing with Australia’s regional security environment.
Phases
The Executive Education Program consists of four three-day intensive Modules:
- Capstone: Strategic Policy for the Asia-Pacific
- Strategic Diplomacy for Australian Defence
- China and International Order
- Crises, Conflicts and Alliances in Asia
In 2024, the Program was expanded to include specially designed Working Seminars for Defence Senior Executives. Profs. Goh and Prantl conceptualised the approach, and worked with Drs. King and Henry to deliver the two Workings Seminars in July and November at the request of Defence SP Div.
Altogether about 30 SES from Defence participated in these two half-day closed-door discussions on dealing with urgent strategic challenges in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.
The feedback was excellent, especially regarding the quality of the team’s facilitation using helpful original concepts, and a dynamic scenario-based exercise.
Between 2022-2024 the Program has seen a total of 320 participants, the bulk of whom are Australian Defence officials, with a small number from DFAT and other parts of the APS.
